| Jan 1: | Mutiny of unpaid Pennsylvania soldiers |
| Jan 17: | Patriot Morgan defeats the British at Cowpens, South Carolina |
| Mar 2: | Articles of Confederation adopted (noted above) |
| Jun 6: | Americans recapture Augusta, Georgia |
| Sep 15: | French fleet drives British from Chesapeake Bay (near Washington, DC) |
| Oct 19: | British General Cornwallis – surrounded by land and sea by the Americans and French – surrenders at Yorktown, Virginia (pivotal battle ending the war) |